Brent Paterson

Dr. Brent Paterson is Founder and President of Prepared Campus Consulting with over 30 years of experience in university crisis management. Brent has developed and coordinated incident management teams, critical incident response teams, and behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams and contributed to the development of Emergency Operations Plans and crisis communications.

Brent has over 40 years of experience in higher education in a variety of roles including Dean of Student Life, Vice President of Student Affairs, and Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff.   He has also served as an instructional associate professor at Texas A&M University and Illinois State University teaching graduate courses in student affairs and higher education administration.

 He is co-author of Crisis Management: Responding from the Heart and a contributing author in Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Prevention, Response, and Recovery (First Edition), and Enough Is Enough: A Student Affairs Perspective on Preparedness and Response to a Campus Shooting.  Brent is co-author of a research study that examined the impact of a crisis on the lives and careers of university leaders and responders twenty years later ("Reflections from Crisis: A Phenomenological Study of the Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse" published in the NASPA Journal).  

Brent is a recipient of the D. Parker Young Award in recognition of outstanding scholarly and research contributions in the area of higher education law and judicial affairs, the Order of Fraternal Excellence Award presented to a college or university administrator who has attained and sustained an outstanding level of professional accomplishment relating to the college fraternity, and was named a NASPA Pillar of the Profession for sustained professional distinction in higher education.